1. Investment firms acting on behalf of retail clients, as defined in Article 4(1), point (11), of Directive 2014/65/EU, or professional clients as referred to in Section II of Annex II to that Directive shall not receive any fee, commission or non-monetary benefit from any third party for executing orders from those clients on a particular execution venue or for forwarding orders of those clients to any third party for their execution on a particular execution venue ("payment for order flow").

The first subparagraph shall not apply to rebates or discounts on the transaction fees of execution venues, where permitted under the approved and public tariff structure of a trading venue in the Union or of a third-country trading venue, where they exclusively benefit the client. Such discounts or rebates shall not result in a monetary benefit to the investment firm.